Cecil the lion’s cubs expected to survive

The (IFAW) said the death has gained traction because many Americans were not aware hunting the big cats is legal in many African nations when 75 percent of Americans are opposed to lion trophy hunting.

The hunting party was “devastated” to discover that Cecil was wearing a Global Positioning System collar, he insisted. At first, the country seemed nonplussed by the Cecil controversy.

“Unfortunately it was too late to apprehend the foreign poacher as he had already absconded to his country of origin”, a Zimbabwean government minister said Friday, adding that authorities there were “appealing to the responsible authorities for his extradition to Zimbabwe so that he be made accountable”.

Stapelkamp shares the anger, not just because of the demise of Cecil.

Zimbabwe will seek the extradition of an American dentist who killed a lion that was lured out of a national park and caused worldwide outrage, a Cabinet minister said Friday. About a dozen lions in the region were killed illegally in recent years, Stapelkamp said, and no one was caught.

Palmer hasn’t returned numerous emails from The Associated Press. The amount of attention Cecil is getting is far from usual for a story about endangered species. He arrived as a kind of lion refugee, alone and wandering after being displaced from another territory. But they are hopeful that the cubs will likely be defended by Cecil’s brother, Jericho, according to the director of Oxford’s zoology department.

Many activists pointed out what they said was the disconnect. The 55-year-old dentist shot, skinned, and beheaded the lion during a hunting expedition in July. “It’s unacceptable”.

He is alleged to have lured Cecil from the safety of the national park to kill him. The two areas are separated by a railway line. “If they didn’t have the money from hunting in the park service, these animals would be eradicated within a month”. They provide incentives to reduce encroachments into wildlife refuges by people seeking land or food, and provide a counterbalance when lions and other big animals kill local people. Approximately 600 are killed every year, most in legal hunts. “It rushes in for a free meal and they’re waiting… and they kill him like that”. He also said he was a North Dakota native, but where he grew up has not been reported. “We believe in what would be an ethical hunt”, Pinizzotto said.

Bronkhorst also revealed that Palmer, who paid $55,000 for the hunt, had posed for a photograph next to Cecil’s body as is normal for trophy hunters.

“He’s a well-educated man, he’s got a lot of resources”, Stapelkamp said. “And no consequences when you’re sitting there in your pajamas at three o’clock in the afternoon, you haven’t even brushed your teeth yet or opened up the window shade, and you’re just saying ugly, vile things”.

‘That was taken with the client’s camera, so I don’t have access to it, ‘ Bronkhorst said.

Yes, there is. Of course, it would be better if trophy seekers were willing to pay similar large amounts simply to get up-close photographs of the big-game animals.